AWARDS & HONORS
1983-84
Guggenheim Fellow
1984
Fellow of the California Academy
of Sciences
1985
G. K. Gilbert Award, Division of Planetary Geology, Geological
Society of America
1986
Honorary Foreign Fellowship, European
Union of Geosciences
1986
Honorary citizenship, Piobbico, Italy
1986-87
Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1988
Minor planet "Alvarez" (1985 HC), discovered
1985
by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker, named for L. W. Alvarez
and W. Alvarez
1989
Fellow of the American Geophysical
Union
1991
Rennie Taylor Award of the American Tentative Society (Science Journalists)
1991
Elected to the National
Academy of Sciences
1992
Elected Foreign Member of the Royal
Danish Academy of Sciences
1993
Elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences
1993
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Illinois
Wesleyan University
1994
Honorary citizenship, Gubbio, Italy
1998
Journalism Award of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists
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